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That Was the Week that Was: 2013 Week 03

This makes us 3 for 3 on posting TW3s in 2013. We continue trying to post three posts a day (except Sundays), although there’s a little variability in our daily posting schedule, the plan (normal warnings about plans apply) is to post a weapons-technical or -culture post at 0600, an SF- or UW-related post at 1100, and a post with no fixed prerequisite in the afternoon. Saturdays we have a substantive post in the morning, a Saturday Matinee movie review, and a TW3 (this post). This schedule is more aspirational than rigid, but now you know what we’re thinking around here. .

The Boring Statistics

This week was an average week. We posted 22 posts with some 21 comments by press time for this post, and a total of about 15,000 words. We did pass one significant milestone this week: on the 18th, our 1,000th post went live. We expect to pass 2,000 before year’s end.

Comment of the Week

Nothing really jumped out at us this week, we just enjoyed the usual repartee with the usual suspects.

The Week in Posts

Is the SMG Dead? Not at SIG where they just introduced a new one, clearly targeted at law enforcement MP5 users. Imagine an MP5, but that has standard AR controls.

Don’t bring a cattle prod to a gunfight, or you’ll wind up like this Florida robber if you’re very lucky — in jail. If you’re not very lucky, you get slabbed, like he might have been but for an unreasonably temperate armed store clerk.

When hammers are outlawed, that would prevent more crimes than outlawing rifles. (But who are we kidding? Like criminals are going to care about one more law about anything? They’re criminals, for the love of God).

What do people keep reading, here? We look at those non-recent posts in our statistical Top Ten to see what stories had legs. A technical story, a news story we broke (female Ranger students), a movie review… it’s a mixed bag.

That Was the Week that Was: 2013 Week 03 — that’s this post, so don’t expect a link.

Going Forward

We have a cool The Past is Another Country post from both 1961 and 1911 — roughly 50 and 100 years ago — that we didn’t get to last week. We also have an update on 3D-printable hardware. As Cody Wilson says, “How’s that national conversation going?”

Thanks, Tim. Salute from an 18F/18B/11B3S/ and a couple other things of lesser importance.

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About WeaponsMan

WeaponsMan is a blog about weapons. Primarily ground combat weapons, primarily small arms and man-portable crew-served weapons. The site owner is a former Special Forces weapons man (MOS 18B, before the 18 series, 11B with Skill Qualification Indicator of S), and you can expect any guest columnists to be similarly qualified.

Our focus is on weapons: their history, effects and employment. This is not your go-to place for gun laws or gun politics; other people have that covered.

Why WeaponsMan?

A lot of nonsense is written about weapons, especially on the Net. Rather than rail at the nonsense, we thought we'd talk sense instead, and see how that catches on.